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08 December 2012

Quads and More

GenealogyBank on their blog mentioned a newspaper clipping from 1903 which showed an image of a woman and her quadruplets in Toledo, Ohio. It also mentioned how many children this woman had. What it did not mention is more interesting and more sad.

There were quadruplets born to Stanislaus and Francis Spychalski in Toledo--the birth register from Lucas County, Ohio indicates as much. I bet that clerk never had to write "Quadruplet set" very often.

Frances presumably had at least one more child as per this 1920 census enumeration which has a nine-year old child Chester living in the the household. Mrs. Spycholski is deceased by the 1920 enumeration.

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